The plan was I wanted to kill as many women I thought were prostitutes as I possibly could.

I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.

And Mr Richways, your desire to believe guilty to the 48 charges of aggravated murder in the first degree,

because you believe that you are guilty of each of those offenses.

Yes. Right many other serial killers, Ridgeway, targeted vulnerable people. And prostitutes are the most vulnerable of all.

Everybody was terrified.

You know, I mean these were places where we picnicked, where we swam, where children ran free up until this time when you know body starts showing up.

Once the killing started everyone was rather mystified. I mean, the idea is the work of more than one person and where does it begin and where does it end?

And how could this be? I mean, they were all in the Green River.

We were told by a rafter that he'd been floating down the river he saw to what he thought were

mannequins alongside the river bank and as he got closer realized that they weren't

mannequins but indeed they were human bodies.

One of her arms were free and waving in the water.

Kind of saying to me, help, you know, here I am.

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